Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754809Ab2KHB6p (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:58:45 -0500 Received: from exprod7og112.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.177]:45027 "EHLO exprod7og112.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751740Ab2KHB6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2012 20:58:44 -0500 Message-ID: <509B117A.6070708@genband.com> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:57:14 -0600 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Fedora/3.1.16-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Mason CC: Andy Grover , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , target-devel , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Marc Fleischmann , Nicholas Bellinger Subject: Re: scsi target, likely GPL violation References: <509A915B.30105@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Nov 2012 01:57:16.0101 (UTC) FILETIME=[60B54F50:01CDBD54] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.4160-6.500.1024-19348.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--5.647700-8.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 23 On 11/07/2012 07:02 PM, Jon Mason wrote: > I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but if > I understand the GPL correctly, RTS only needs to provide the relevant > source to their customers upon request. Not quite. Assuming the GPL applies, and that they have modified the code, then they must either: 1) include the source with the distributed binary or 2) include with the binary an offer to provide the source to *any* third party Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/